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Just as online retailers are getting the hang of the physical aspects of fulfillment, along comes another surprise: the sheer expense of the whole business. Benchmark Internet retailer Amazon.com, reporting a loss of $317 million in the second quarter of …

XML is a hot favorite for e-commerce transactions, but universal usage standards remain elusive
A pianist can rely on hours of practice and his own neural and physical processes to communicate with his audience in the language of music. Pity …

Lessons from last Avoiding online fulfillment snafus this holiday season As the 20th-century philosopher George Santayana said, those who do not learn from the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them. And with the holiday shopping season about …

What’s trendy, up-to-the-minute, and to die for? A distribution center that’s equipped to the max for e-commerce, of course. Take a tour of SubmitOrder.com’s new facility
If you ask the folks at SubmitOrder.com what sets them apart from …

Sigma Micro’s Controller+ The business systems marketplace is demanding more options, more support, and of course, more e-commerce functionality. Sigma Micro is one of several WMS software developers responding to these demands. Its Controller+ has been installed by several large, …

Harnessing Chaos New killer app battles the Godzilla of multi-channel merchandising; everybody wins!
Every once in a while a system comes along that is so stunning in its conceptual structure, so profound in its philosophical foundation, and so massive in …

Skittish second quarter M&A activity up just slightly Mergers and acquisitions activity was nearly as subdued during the second quarter of the year as in the first. Just 11 deals involving print or online catalogers were completed in April, May, …

At first glance, the numbers indicate that direct marketing stocks are on a roll: up 64.1% over the past 12 months, much higher than Standard & Poor’s retail sector. But catalog stocks been suppressed for so long that there’s nowhere to go but …

Meteorologists are predicting a mean hurricane season for 2000, and catalogers that weathered September 1999′s Hurricane Floyd are battening down the hatches.
It’s wise to have an effective contingency plan in place, says Eric Hook, vice president of marketing for marine …